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Origin Of Osculation.

The British Apollo, when asked
Why kissing was so popular, what its
benefit, and who its inyento replied:
"Ah, mad anne, had you 9 lover you
would not come to Apollo for q solu-
tion; since there is no dispute but the
kisses Of mutual lovers give infinite
satisfaction. As to its invention it ii
certain that nature was it's author.
and it began with the first court tship.' =
1t seems difficult to conceive Of q time
when kissing was unknown in this isl,
and, and yet a Scandinavian tradf
tion states that kissing was first in.
troduced into England by Rowena the
beautiful daughter Of Hengist. In Ed
ward the Tvs reign IL was usual for q
guest, both on his arrival and at his
departure, to kiss his hostess and all
the ladies of her family. Again, in
Henry's time, when Cavendish visited
q French noblenan at his own chat
eau, the mistress OF the house at the
head OF her maidens thus greeted him:
"For as much as yebe an Englishman.
whose custom it is in your country to
kiss all ladies and gentlewomen with
out offense, and although it be not so
here in this realm, yet will I he so
bold as to kiss you, and so shall all
my maidens." Erasmus, grave and
staid scholar as he was, writes en-
Enthusiastically OF the practice: "Ifyou
60 to any place you are received with
a kiss by all; if you depart on a. jour.
ney you are dismissed with Kiss; YOU
return-kisses are exchanged; they
come to visit you-a kiss the first
thing; they leave you-you kiss them
all round. Do they meet you any
where-kisses in abundance. Lastly,
wherever you move, there is nothing
but kisses-and if you had but once
tasted them! how soft they are! how
fragrant! on my honor you would not
wish to reside here for 10 wears onlv.
but for life. ALI the Year Round.
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The Decay of Iron.
Boston Journal.


Mr.. David Stiles of Middleton, who
has been a practical worker in iron
with his own hands for more than fifty
years, has written an interesting LETT
ter to the Salem Gazette, in which he
shows by observation that iron rote
from age. He says that the continual
jar has the effect to weaken the tensile
strength of iron, which statement he
illustrates by saying that the step Of
q carriage when new may be bent back
and forth without breaking, but after
a few years service it will break, nc
matter how we'll preserved. The same
loss OF tensile strength is noted in car
riage springs. The poorest may be
safely warranted for q year, but even
after that short time they begin to
break, and those of the best quality
will break after years Of constant and
trying service. The writer has found
that old crowbars, made 6 the best
Swedish iron and used by the early
settlers of New England have Ranuma
SO rotten THAT they could mott be weld.
ed when broken and had on offensive
smell when the welding heat was ap
Piled Formerly all iron WAS wrought
by the trip hammer, which scattered
all the brittle and worthless material,
but the substitution of the rollers
makes it possible to run bars through
which contain the poorest stock. Iron
made from newly mined ore, even if OF
poorer quality, is safer than that in.
to the manufacture ofwhich scrap iron
is introduced, which is now imported
in large quantities. The writer, as d
practical iron worker, expresses the
opinion that, as this scrap iron may
be the old English bar iron, which six
ty years ago was of little value except
Tor heavy ties, it is unfit for truss or
suspension bridges.
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OF Connaught had distinguished him
SELF, and was safe. Straight, these
two women, his mother and his WIFE:
fell upon each others necks and wept
An concert, as women will do on re-
ceipt OF good or bad news, either. a
few days afterward the mails came,
and Louisa had long letter from the
duke. The queen went to her room
and "dear Louischen read me parts
"f Arthur's letter. Parts is goo i
At the beginning Of this paper It wa,
said that the queen began public life
as whig. She soon learned that to
get along comfortably she must, in
Lord Melbourne's phrase, "Hold out
the olive branch to the tories" Albert
speedily took a strictly non-partisan
position and after a time che followed
his example. Indeed, from about
1845, she has taken little part in do
mestic politics. Whatever minister
parliament wanted was acceptable to
her. But sheys has always taken an
active part in foreign politics.. In
deed, it might be said of her to some
extent that she has always been her
own foreign minister. She has more
than once-as in the Don Pacitico af-
fair-given way against her Judgment
to the ministry of the day, but never
without remonstrance. When Lord
Palmerston sent foreign dispatches
without consulting her, she protested,
| and directed him in writing not only
ito communicate all dispatches to her
before sending them off, but to "give
the queen reasonable time to &C.
quaint herself with their contents"
When Palmerston neglected to comply
| with this request she insisted on his
resignation. When Lord John Rus
| sell wrote an irritating dispatch on
the Trent affair, intending to provoke
this country into war, she and Prince
| Albert modified it. and insisted on it's
being sent as modified. The theory
| OF the British constitutional system
| is that the monarch Is a puppet in the
hands of the ministry; tut Queen Vic
toria, ir foreign matters, has decid-
ed will Of her own, and few British
! statesmen care to test the extent OF
| her prerogative.
The queens lie has been divided
thus far into three parts; her child
hood, eighteen years; her married life,
twenty-one years; her sorrowing
| widowhood, twenty.six years. If, as
| is possible, she would live to the age
of the German emperor, she would
have fourth period OF over twenty
years, OF possible usefulness.
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High Price Paid for a Torpedo.
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
The British government has paid
high price for the American torpedo.
invented by a young matchmaker
named Brennan. First and last the
purchase has involved an expenditure
of $3.50, 900, including the inventors
salary for eight years and a reward OF
over $55O,OOO. The government has
acquired absolute control of the inven.
tion, and has taken extraordinary
pains to guard the secrets for which It
has expended 80 much money. The
torpedo is said to have q speed
of twenty-five miles an hour, obtained
by an arrangement of drums, wheels
and propellers, and to be controlled
Fl ON the moment it starts until it
strikes the target. The principles on
which it is constructed are generally
known, but the contrivance- by which
the sensitive rudder is directed by the
operators will are secrets the invent
or himself has disclosed only to q few
engineers having the confidence OF the
admiralty. The cheapness ofthis tor
pedo in comparison with heavy ord.
nance is a point in its favor. The.
plant for operating five torpedDea can
be provided for the sum required for
mounting two ten-inch guns.
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"Just Toe Him all to Pieces"

"Just Toe Him all to Pieces.''
Mr.. Allen of Mississippi, who made
some reputation in the late house of
representatives, is sallow, swarthy
young fellow, who once whipped the
yellow fever after a desperate struggle.
He tells good one on himself in this
wise: During his first campaign for.
congress he was opposed by q Repub-
licaA named Green Chandler, who.
was trying to rally the negro vote
solidly against Allen. At one of Chan
dler's meetings Allen appeared unex-
pectedly and made a ringing reply to
the Republican candidate. An old
negro who was at the meeting went
home and was asked by his employer
how he liked Mr. Chand!er's speech.
He said: Boss, Col. Chandler made
q mighty good speech, but when he
got through a little old yaller niger
named John Allen got up an jjes toe
him all to pieces-he zoe him all to
pieces. Use for Allen s..z ..ss
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A Good School.

One Of the most interesting schools
in the city OF New York is connected
with and supported by the firm OF
Hoe & Company, manufacturers OF
saws and printing presses. The firm
employs about a thousand men, and
usually has in it's shops two hundred
and fifty boys learning their trade. To
construct the immense and rapid
printing press now used requires the
most accurate and skillful machinists,
and the Hoe brothers perceived that
boys at present havenot affair chance
to acquire accuracy and skill.
Accordingly, some time ago, they
founded their school,, in which their
apprentices receive, five evenings in
each week, nine months in the year,
the best instruction in the principles
OF their trade. .ss 81 ii a.
Two skilltul draughtsmen give in
struction in machine drawing. Other
teachers carry the boys forward in
arithmetic, algebra and geometry.
The principles Of mechanics are thor.
ough1y taught, as well as illustrated
ay apparatus. Occasionally q short
lecture Is given on the rights and du
ties Of 8 citizen, or on some interest.
ing point OF history or geography.
At six o clock in the evening, when
the days work is over, the boys find
ready for them near the school rooms
q lunch, which IS furnished free BY the
firm to save the boys from loss 81
q II 10 re .,n - So
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He Ate Pigs Feet in the Pit.

DR.. Geo. F. shrady, one OF Gen.
Grants physicians, was a passenger
the other day on an elevated railway
train down Third avenue to City Hall.
Going along the grade between Canal
street and Chatham square the doctor
turned hastily from the window to a
friend and ejaculated:
"That was the old Bowery Theatre,
eh? with the big columns we just pass.
ed"
"What was the old Bowery? yes
now the Thalia."
The doctor smiled and then laugh.
ed.
''Many's the night I've excused
myself from prayer.meetlng when q
boy, and with quarter dollar gone
down to the old Bowery to see stage
life from the pit with newsboys and
bootblacks. fused to pay shilling
out OF the quarter for the privileges OF
the pit, and the rest of the money
would buy a halfdozen pigs feet-pigs'
hockies we called them"
His friend seemed interested, and
the doctor continued the ren1iniscence
with the gusto of lad.
"Sitting with the lads in the pit in
those days, eating pigs feet and absorb.
ing CORY villainy from the stage! And
the 'thrasher,' too-the bigfellow with
acane who waded through us about
so often, and thumped our skins and
heads on the general principle of pre-
venting noise, no matter how quiet we
might be at the time. There used to
be a bad, bad man who acted on the
stage there-the fellow with red boots,
velvet breeches, plaid vest, velvet coat
and wicked knife and hat. He was q
hero. He was the greatest man in the
world to us boys, and when he'd
come on with his wild eyes glaring
wickedly we boys would cling to
the pigs feet with our
teeth for a minute while
we slapped our hands to blisters and
shouted the best we could. Glorious
days those! There was just enough fla
vor OF the forbidden to make pigs
hockies the sweetest fruit, only new
er could stay to see it out, and that
was bitterness most bitter. I had to
get out so as tosmake my fun and the
end Of the prayer er-meeting tally as to
time; so I always lost the last act
and had to get my chum to tell it to
me. To be an actor in the old Bow
cry Theater, to me then, seemed the
highest ambition man could achieve"
The doctor smiled again over his recol-
lections and then added with serious
ness:
$50 now, I say to one OF my boys:
Come, Harvey, do you want to go to
the theatre, to-night?' And we go. l
go with my boys, and the result is
they don't run away without me.
There's no reason why they should,
and they know it-best way, don't
you think so?''
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Stoves in Germany.
correspondence Ch arleston News.

German stoves, by the way, are. OF
a large, cumbrous size, resembling
furnace in shape, but are anything
else IN reality. One can never catch
a glimpse OF flame, and from their
nature, if heated in the morning, begin
drawingin the afternoon. Their merit
lies in the fact that they preserve 3
room at q uniform ]. temperature,
without ever allowing it to become
hot. The faVorite attitude is to lean
up against them to ascertain whether
they are heated or not, as there Is no
possible danger Of scorching. The
white color Of the porcelain is il strlk-8
ing contrast to the dark iron cast Of
=onrs, and looking like an old -fashionf
ed cupboard, q stranger never recQx
Hizes stove il one until the fa1e
toned ot the y
part 81 ss#3 lisfIid =. a Il
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Onions for the Nerves.

Onions are about the best nerve
remedy known" !" said q physician to
a st. Louis Giobereporter. d med
icine is SO effcacious IN cases of nery.
.ous prostration. Their absorbent
powers are also most valuable, enc
cially III times of epide dernic. It has -
peatedly been obser th9 an oilicn
patch ii The inlnaed diat d vicipit IL
houss acts as shield
lence, which iz velya Apt 81 ~ s : y
Rs innla IfiiIs| s.
= ~ ! l51 n 81 ssf 3
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THE THISTLE.
A Discrepancy In the Length of Her
Lead Line.

Nav YoRK, September 25.-Gecrse
L. Schuyler, the umpire Of the coming
races between the Thistle and volun.
teer, has made an official report a. 10
eligibility Of the Thistle, because
a rather remarkable dlscrep-
snoy In tso statements Of the
length q her load wa'er line. This
line, II will be rem INBRED, was
siven at the time OF the challenge AT
50 feet. while ths actual Measurement
made here Ia New York makes II "a
~ 90 ieet. The umpire accepts the
IL ,lanation 81 the owner Of the yacht
TIA The mistake was one made by the
designer ~ his report 10 the owner.
TIE New York Yacht Club and, In.
d ed, everybody, seems 10
he satisfied with the 70.
port of the umpire exec p.
NJ, Watson. the Thistle designer,
who writes letter 10 the nesspspsis
todsy, Ia which he siys: "Mr. soluy.
Ter very properly exonera,es Mr.. B3ll
from all blame IN the mstlor, plaoir y
u, with all Justice. on his deIigusr,
bat 40 he previously implies ,na' an
error has been made Through mistake
or deslgu, IL becomes necss.
asTy for me 10 protest against
Al least hall OF this insinuauon.
While the Thistle has been sailed In
Britain, ~ sie will b. here, VI q line
lower than her designed draft, and 10,
co ssqnently, from her great over
hang forward aud aft, one foot Eve
aud ons.hali inches longer than
i intended, or snppoeed she
would be-and most enphhti'
cAlly deny that | had any
intention that sbe should be longer or
shorter than thSeighiy.hgs feet chs
was designed for. | would rather 10 Z
all chinos Of the cup than that The
many millions Of that people which
Charles Resds calls the most Reperoul
peopls under the sun, should suppose
va thed for u excsp. In Q strictly hon
orable way"
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Naturo's uws True Laxative.

The deliclouo flavor aUd hsalihy
proptriiss Of sound, ripe I nj, ara well
known, md seeing the need OF m
agreeable I'd I'll ,ciiye laxative the
California tis Syrup Company, com-
meucCd few years ego 10 manuisc'.
urs a cIaoeairS,ed Sy'up n fgs,
which hes give1 such gseergl eatis-
faction that II IL raui1y euprtcsd X
the bitter, drast liver medicines and
csthartici hitherto In uss. II oottlve
or billion, try II. For sale In ~ cents
and 81 bottles by ". J. HeirtsI and
all leading druggi5,s. Van West a
Co., q. W. Jono, a o., W. N. Will
kerson q 90, J. J. Miles, end Z.
Mansfield a 90 have been appointed
Wholesale aVen.E ~ Narr ~his
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Diam ond Dots.

LAST game today.
The Browns 20 10 Birmingham TO-
night.
CINCINNATI played great ball against
81. Louie.
DENNY LYONS has made 2l2 hits
this season.
The B.owns play five games with
New Orleans.
Tony SUCK will probably umpire the
games at New Orleans.
KLUssNAN,i late OF New Orleans, Is
at his home In Cincinnati.
The directors have presented all the
players with IS derby hats.
MCCLELLAN will probably be re-.
tanned BY Brooklyn for the outfeld
next year.
The Pslicsns had a regular old fash.
Toned picnic with Powell's Sea Gulls
yesterday.
CHARLESTON has several postponed
games to play with Birmingham, and
10 arranging TO have them all take
place In the city by the sea.
The Adam Street Reds defeated the
Union Street Pickups BY tcore OF
to 0. Base hits, Reds, 10; Pickups, O.
The Reds did some terrific batting.
The feature Of the gtms was Cohen's
pitching.
RKocIUs's hand is improving, but he
will not bs abe to play sgsin this sea.
son. He has received permission TO
go to Hot Springs and will leave today.
His salary CONTINUES for the remain.
der oil the seaeon.
one OF the Mem phIs directory Ia
authority for the report that President
Morrow 10 10 accompany the Mem.
phis club on lite present tour, Ia order
to see that 70 undue advantage be
taken by local umpires.
BIRMIsoHAN, II Is said, will ask
President Morrow TO appoint q epecisl
committee 10 accompany the b lbies
10 Charleston to zee that they get fair
play. The Birmingham manseemsnt
will pay the expenses.
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A PERPLEXiNG MYSTERY.
HIS Some schemer Been Trining
with u sacred Bedyf

with sacred Bodyf
There 10 something Of q mystery
surrounding the report OF the late
grand jury on bonds Of several msgiF.
tra,es Recommendation were made,
covering about twenty Ave Of them
some to be strengthened, others to
give new bonds entire. Acting upon
the admonition, one oi the Justices
worked mp q bond good for 100000,
although the amount required waB
only $500, and took 1t TO the County
Court clerk. The latter official was At
a loss 10 understand the situation,
and brought out his old bond Of the
magistrate given last September. II
was gilt-edged, aud unexpired. The
clerk further informed him that the
grand jury bad not examined the
msgistFsies bonds, or even inquired
flr them. IL 10 reported, however,
that Q few magistrates, whose names
did not appear on the delinq uent list,
had no bonds at ali on fle. But q
grand inry knows, oh, so WELL lust
who should be secured and who
not. The matter does 10. rest
here, though. Mr.. ii. REYNOLDS, who
served on both the grand jurisI that
indicted Me- HAdden and some OF hi,
associates, said he knew nothing about
tho matter OF mseistrstes' bonds. Gan
II be that some drsipning person hai
trihsd with tbs ssnclity Of the grand
jury, and made them report something
ulaEaraA2
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New Orleans Wins Two Games.
ESPECIAL TO rHl APPKAI.l

NEW ORLEANS, LA September 25.-
New Orleans won two games from
Charleston today, both by bard bat.
ting. Ia the morning Smith was pound.
cd bard In one inning. The rest Of the
Rsme. he was saved by tho most
superb eott OF fielding. especially by
Carl aud Glenn. Powell kept the bits
OF him scattered. The second base
work oil Geiss, and the catching of
Vaughn and Nicholas, were the
other features. In the aiterpo IN nearly
5000 people attended, only about 1000
having seen the morning game. The
locals were little broken, Fuller be-
ing hurt before taa game aud chang
ing positions with Powell, and Vaughn
almost having his hand broken by one
OF Hungler's hot shots In the second.
Vaughn went 10 center sf G. beipg
patched up. NoVey did well the rest
OF the game. HuGgler received a ter.
rifc pounding from the start, ard
Charlesion's fsldine lost some OF
Its brilliant character, Glenn
muffi x two flee. New Orleans
played speifec. fielding game, Cess
and B:sdiey doing the best work.
Fields umpired aud gave all doubtful
decisions to Charleston. 90 tina. there
was 10 cImplsining. Ewing pitched
Q good game and none Ct Chsrleston's
rups were earned, although their elm.
sles we're buuched in the eighth. Both
teams leave tomorrow Tor Charleston I.
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THE TURF.
Programme Of Todsy's Races at
ChurehtII Downs

LOUISVILLE, Kr., September 25.-
The entries and pools on Mondays
events at Churchill Downs are as fol.
loES:
F.ut RGce-Three quarterg OF q
mile. Ksrmesse, 107, S35; Mlrth, l07,
80; P emier, 10, 81; Au,ociat. ITO,
S2j; Enma Hancock, lO7, 80; Ellen
ID, l07, fl3; Ltndlsdy, lO7, 81; Della,
lO7. 90; Qlindsr Belle, i07, 81; Elmira,
l07, SIS; Golightly, l05, sls.
Second Race One mile. V CO
Regent, lib, i45; Dnmstiek, 95, 81;
Coincide, l05, So; Dyer, los, $40;
Fanny \ raus, 95, a..
Third Race-Tnree i)urlhs Of mile I;
ssllipg. Eva X, 100, $50; Feslus, 50,
90; Billy Lincoln, 80 %; Glen Hall,
ll3, tl3, Lisbon, l04, 80; King Stock,
l05, 90, Oar FienJ, 1903, So; Belle
TAw, lOi, 81; Chance, l03, $40; DAgo.
l04, tl2; Mary Ellis, IS. sl2; Violin,
100, GA
Fourth Race Mile and one sIr.
teeth. Derochment, 90, 80; John
MJlIis, los, 80; Jim Gray, l0s. t35 4;
Alamo, ll3. 81; Harry Glenn, 9s, 90 /;
Hopedale, los, 3l7; florimore, 1906,
els
Fifth Race-ssvsn-olghths Of mile.
Florence Il lis, t26; Con Cream, es,
80; DArkhsll, 100, SIS; Lsfilte. lis,
f22; Catslps, 100, tl2; Lewis CLARK,
lls. s28; Governor, lis, si6; Bank.
rupt, lis, f2b.
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LoaisviIie 4. C,evsI..s,x


LOUISVILLE, KY, September 25.-
The weather was clear and beautiful,
but cold, here today, and the crowd
at the ball park did not number over
$500 people. Ramsey pitched q
miserable game, and by loose and
reckless PLAYING gave the visitors fully
i've rune. The fielding Of Kelly's men
was also not up TO usual standard, and
they were unable to hit to any effect.
Cleveland did good work 10 the field
and, with Ramsey's support, ran up
the score to its one.sided figure.
Score:
Louisville. -......0 100000 o.
Oleveisnd -""..l 002l 04l 5-14
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a.. LenI- Parard Arnin

ST LOUIS, S,plt IN Jer 20 u > 10 tho
seventh inping today FouiE pitched a
magnificent sHps d had O. cints All
shut GU, ah8 bu, threa scatlsripR
hts were MAZE "a bic teliv,ry. Win
one fell swoop the rsd.lezgsd warriors
lii on Cd rsllaDl, Dave In tho seventh
aud pou d. d him oil over the field.
Alter the ba'i 9 light Turs were fourd
90 b. pill 4 up, three II which were
made ~ or chArtes we're given % r..
tirn tho fide. Brllisnt plays were
frequlni, 30 ab.y among witch W. 70
BNnamb oalch o. not liner al
Rilley'e bat ADD q rshilfs running
ca che,. Toe hest aLrJund a,nrs
Of the sAms was Gleason'a supsrb
sbor, siop w;fk. Fully II, 900 pro ,le
were y cent and great enthusiasm
prevailed unt fIufE sas knocked
out. Ia the ssye ,th inning Csrnth r.
split he little dig,r of bis right h ard
IN caichings d., kaoua taxing bis
place. score.
81. Louis. .,.....2 o. 900 O. 4
Cincinnati-.......O 90 100 - s
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won eight games during the season.
DAt'more went in to win the odd one,
and succeeded, under extraordinary
circumstances, and Brooklyn play ed
Win . single error, and made more
nits man tns visitors, hut the single
error COST TWO runs. That, together
with Toole's foolishress In hitting two
Score:
Booklyp-.....t..0 0 00I010 o.
baltimore--.."...02 o O 2 90 s-5
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DIED..


fOGLBMAN-0n September nth. at the
Iesidenee OF his grandfather, j, W Diekie.
LEhor ID tfx foaLksAs, only sou Of Capt,
u. A fosleman, IN tho ninth year Of his
age.
CAlNR-Sud ienly. at his residence, on
Seventh str, ct, 81 turdsy, sett ~, 1881. at
lOo'clo'k pm, Thomas CAIsr, AGED thirty
t~o years.
Funeral will take place from his late resi-
dence, this tM0NDAYl morn ing At . o'clock.
Services At 1t. Jo,sph's Church at $50
o'clock. Friend, Of the family are invited
10 attend.
CLARKR-At Nashville, Tom, Sunday
morning. sopts nber -. 1851, WHILE DtLLk
CLAnEl, daughter Of John II. and the late
sAllie W, TAYLOR.
Burial viii take place at Elmwood Gene
tory. thi, tmoNDAN afternoon 81 $50
o'clock. Friends Of tic family as invited
TO s,tend -